Henry Ford is informed by the New York World that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which he has been reprinting with anti-Semitic commentary in his own newspaper the Dearborn Independent, are a forgery.

Ford is quoted as replying:

"The only statement I care to make about the Protocols is that they fit in with what is going on. They are sixteen years old, and they have fitted the world situation up to this time. Indeed they do."

It doesn't appear to matter to Henry Ford whether they are "genuine" or not; what they say matches his perceptions of the world and that's sufficient for him.

A fraud created in Russia (probably by the Russian Secret Police), the Protocols of the Elders of Zion purports to describe a Jewish plan for taking over the world.

For the Nazis, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion will become important part of their anti-Semitic propaganda campaign. After coming to power the Nazis force all German schools to study it as if it were a factual text. Adolf Hitler and other prominent Nazis use it as justification for the Holocaust, claiming that exterminating the Jews is necessary as a form of self-defense for Christian civilization.